Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Solution to "The Mystery in the Orient"

The charred note made out to Cedric Agar by the car's owner establishes the owner as Leonard Ball or Alfred Huntley. As we find in (4) that Leonard Ball is not the car owner, we know that Alfred Huntley is. In (1) and (2) we see that the still living man and Ball are married while (3) and (4) show that the car owner is unmarried. Consequently Alfred Huntley (the unmarried man) is not the survivor and as Leonard Ball is eliminated as the living man in (4), the survivor is Cedric Agar.
The Edward is correct
As far as the high powered American car being driven irresponsibly in the Orient, that's a bit confusing to me. I thought high powered cars were synonymous with foreign made cars. But that's just me. Oh well.

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